From Shaun the Sheep and Wallace and Gromit to Chicken Run and new release, Early Man, Aardman Animations boasts a true global appeal. Head of attractions, Ngaio Harding-Hill talks us through the studio's expanding experiential slate and why the market is now bigger than ever before.

As part of the reorganisation, parks and resorts chair, Bob Chapek will add consumer products to his remit and will become chairman of a new Walt Disney Parks, Experiences and Consumer Products business.

The studio has seen previous success with animated adaptions of other books illustrated by Scheffler, and written by Julia Donaldson, with the likes of the Oscar-nominated The Gruffalo and Room on the Broom, Stick Man and The Highway Rat.